Apple's WWDC: Tim Cook's AI legacy at stake in his final developer conference as CEO

Apple is preparing to unveil major improvements to Siri, its voice assistant, at its upcoming developer conference, with the goal of finally delivering the AI experience it promised two years ago. The improvements are expected to include a more powerful standalone chatbot-style app, personal context awareness, and the ability to handle multi-step commands, potentially routing to outside AI models like Google's Gemini. However, Apple faces a critical challenge: Siri must become reliably agentic (able to independently execute complex tasks across multiple apps) to justify Apple's current stock valuation, which depends on developers adopting Apple's App Intents system (the framework that lets Siri perform actions inside third-party apps) before consumers have proven they will actually use the improved features.